The WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes Ultimate plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'data-url' DOM element attribute in all versions up to, and including, 7.4.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
History

Wed, 09 Jul 2025 18:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Getshortcodes
Getshortcodes shortcodes Ultimate
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:getshortcodes:shortcodes_ultimate:*:*:*:*:-:wordpress:*:*
Vendors & Products Getshortcodes
Getshortcodes shortcodes Ultimate

Mon, 07 Jul 2025 15:15:00 +0000

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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Fri, 04 Jul 2025 02:30:00 +0000

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Description The WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes Ultimate plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'data-url' DOM element attribute in all versions up to, and including, 7.4.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
Title Shortcodes Ultimate <= 7.4.0 - Authenticted (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'data-url' Attribute
Weaknesses CWE-79
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 6.4, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Wordfence

Published:

Updated: 2025-07-07T15:01:49.941Z

Reserved: 2025-06-03T19:20:11.841Z

Link: CVE-2025-5567

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-07-07T14:40:55.449Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2025-07-04T03:15:21.040

Modified: 2025-07-09T17:50:47.283

Link: CVE-2025-5567

cve-icon Redhat

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